The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
@thegurglingcod.bsky.social
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
Pinned
I find myself in a deep and abject state of despair about the world, and especially my little corner of it. That said, I will try to keep showing up for people IRL and telling the stupidest puns/jokes that I can think of on here.
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Relatedly: it’s still low key mindboggling that the war on terror and housing collapse eras of wrongdoing passed by without much hiccup. Our political class is just riddled with unpunished criminality.
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Relatedly: it’s still low key mindboggling that the war on terror and housing collapse eras of wrongdoing passed by without much hiccup. Our political class is just riddled with unpunished criminality.
Discovering a Biscuitville in my area takes some of the staying out of a 6:45 AM MRI
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Discovering a Biscuitville in my area takes some of the staying out of a 6:45 AM MRI
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
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Tremendously important read.
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Tremendously important read.
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Straight from the family cookbook!
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Straight from the family cookbook!
Catching up w Fullcast After Dark, and @hollyanderson.bsky.social Tater Tot helmet would coordinate nicely with Pierogi Leggings
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Catching up w Fullcast After Dark, and @hollyanderson.bsky.social Tater Tot helmet would coordinate nicely with Pierogi Leggings
If there were only someone with a newsletter putatively concerned with sausage who might explore making Chinese sausage from scratch.
I used a modified version of the Woks of Life recipe thewoksoflife.com/sticky-rice-...
I think I added a bunch of different types of Chinese sausage including this brand called “Fatty Sausage”
I think I added a bunch of different types of Chinese sausage including this brand called “Fatty Sausage”
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If there were only someone with a newsletter putatively concerned with sausage who might explore making Chinese sausage from scratch.
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Also it’s funny how they can say this with a straight face when we’re staring down a looming economic crisis caused by one of the biggest corporate grifts we’ve ever seen
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Also it’s funny how they can say this with a straight face when we’re staring down a looming economic crisis caused by one of the biggest corporate grifts we’ve ever seen
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proof that any dog can be a lap dog, provided there is a lap and a dog
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
proof that any dog can be a lap dog, provided there is a lap and a dog
I might just make this sometime to have and eat.
I used a modified version of the Woks of Life recipe thewoksoflife.com/sticky-rice-...
I think I added a bunch of different types of Chinese sausage including this brand called “Fatty Sausage”
I think I added a bunch of different types of Chinese sausage including this brand called “Fatty Sausage”
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I might just make this sometime to have and eat.
Can I say that if I had all my grades filed, my home in absolute apple pie order, all outdoor chores covered, a book ms on the way to a press, all my god damn Christmas cards mailed, three cords of wood dried and stacked, and all my bills paid...
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Can I say that if I had all my grades filed, my home in absolute apple pie order, all outdoor chores covered, a book ms on the way to a press, all my god damn Christmas cards mailed, three cords of wood dried and stacked, and all my bills paid...
Also, this paper detail is a hint towards the future of academic publishing (as designed by big publishers): paper books are history, paper belong to bins, and now subscribe to our online packages forever. #academicSky
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“For universities to knowingly coordinate and feed more information into these systems to target students puts them in harm’s way and is a threat to their civil rights.”
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
interc.pt
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“For universities to knowingly coordinate and feed more information into these systems to target students puts them in harm’s way and is a threat to their civil rights.”
I guess the idea here is the globetrotting hotshots who pass through LaGuardia would never when it comes to even rooting for a public school?
IIRC @amandamull.bsky.social had something re the radically different regional notions of prestige re flagship state schools.
IIRC @amandamull.bsky.social had something re the radically different regional notions of prestige re flagship state schools.
Vanderbilt has an ad running in LaGuardia calling themselves “New York’s SEC team”
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I guess the idea here is the globetrotting hotshots who pass through LaGuardia would never when it comes to even rooting for a public school?
IIRC @amandamull.bsky.social had something re the radically different regional notions of prestige re flagship state schools.
IIRC @amandamull.bsky.social had something re the radically different regional notions of prestige re flagship state schools.
Also, as @stevengodfrey.bsky.social will tell you, no bigger nerds exist than vacated wins obsessives. On the field, Joe Paterno was a great coach. He is dead. Changing the numbers next to his name on Wikipedia won't change that.
You can argue the details of the report, sanctions, etc.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
This has been a ruthless and also cynical campaign by Terry Smith. Putting on the Paterno pin to get the most deranged people in the community on your side. Getting the players behind you so you can claim to be the guy who keeps the roster together. He's fighting! 247sports.com/college/penn...
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also, as @stevengodfrey.bsky.social will tell you, no bigger nerds exist than vacated wins obsessives. On the field, Joe Paterno was a great coach. He is dead. Changing the numbers next to his name on Wikipedia won't change that.
Eventually, the piles of bodies of girls HS volleyball players in Birmingham, Grosse Pointe, and Royal Oak, dead from a volleyball shaped wound sustained when a testosterone fueled superweapon blasted a spike right through their TERFY tummies told the tale. Or,
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/19/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/19/a...
Ann Arbor HS volleyball team becomes subject of anti-trans backlash after right-wing reporting • Michigan Advance
A transgender high school student has become the target of Republican lawmakers and conservative media backlash as her high school volleyball team made it to quarterfinals in the state’s varsity volle...
michiganadvance.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Eventually, the piles of bodies of girls HS volleyball players in Birmingham, Grosse Pointe, and Royal Oak, dead from a volleyball shaped wound sustained when a testosterone fueled superweapon blasted a spike right through their TERFY tummies told the tale. Or,
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/19/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/11/19/a...
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We have now clearly identified the dumbest working head coach in FBS football
Justin Wilcox is out as Cal’s head coach. Senior offensive assistant Nick Rolovich will be the interim head coach.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
We have now clearly identified the dumbest working head coach in FBS football
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Some people seem to be under the impression that there is such a thing as nonviolent settlement of occupied territories and there is not
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Some people seem to be under the impression that there is such a thing as nonviolent settlement of occupied territories and there is not
You can argue the details of the report, sanctions, etc.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
This has been a ruthless and also cynical campaign by Terry Smith. Putting on the Paterno pin to get the most deranged people in the community on your side. Getting the players behind you so you can claim to be the guy who keeps the roster together. He's fighting! 247sports.com/college/penn...
Penn State to interview interim Terry Smith for permanent head coaching job
Penn State will formally interview interim coach Terry Smith for the full-time job, CBS Sports national college football reporter Brandon Marcello reported Sunday.
247sports.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You can argue the details of the report, sanctions, etc.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
But. When so many coaches have demonstrated they don't care if their players hurt women, priority 1 is a coach who takes that shit seriously. The 409 button shows that Terry Smith thinks numbers in a record book are more important than SV.
Shit, Penn State should just hire someone from the Epstein coaching tree.
Does he have a I DON'T THINK SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS SHOULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ENABLE IT t-shirt under there?
Does he have a I DON'T THINK SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS SHOULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ENABLE IT t-shirt under there?
This has been a ruthless and also cynical campaign by Terry Smith. Putting on the Paterno pin to get the most deranged people in the community on your side. Getting the players behind you so you can claim to be the guy who keeps the roster together. He's fighting! 247sports.com/college/penn...
Penn State to interview interim Terry Smith for permanent head coaching job
Penn State will formally interview interim coach Terry Smith for the full-time job, CBS Sports national college football reporter Brandon Marcello reported Sunday.
247sports.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Shit, Penn State should just hire someone from the Epstein coaching tree.
Does he have a I DON'T THINK SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS SHOULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ENABLE IT t-shirt under there?
Does he have a I DON'T THINK SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS SHOULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ENABLE IT t-shirt under there?
Damn, he really did the shitting on pedophilia survivors.
www.on3.com/teams/penn-s...
www.on3.com/teams/penn-s...
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Damn, he really did the shitting on pedophilia survivors.
www.on3.com/teams/penn-s...
www.on3.com/teams/penn-s...
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We are one game away from one of the most hyper-specific predictions I’ve ever made coming 100% true
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We are one game away from one of the most hyper-specific predictions I’ve ever made coming 100% true
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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this is also to add that men can get vaccinated for HPV too btw because that will also help eliminate cervical cancer! if you’re over 15, it’s a 3 shot series and you can get it up to age 45 now!
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
this is also to add that men can get vaccinated for HPV too btw because that will also help eliminate cervical cancer! if you’re over 15, it’s a 3 shot series and you can get it up to age 45 now!